Liberty? Why it doesn't exist. There is no liberty in this world, just gilded cages.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet.

...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution.

All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny.

This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings.